Community Corner
🌱 Food Shortages At Schools + Milennial Homeowners + Meliora
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Hey, Sarasota! Let's get you started this Friday with everything you need to know going on today in town.
First, today's weather:
Showers and a heavier t-storm. High: 74 Low: 63.
Here are the top stories today in Sarasota:
- School districts in Sarasota and Manatee counties are experiencing supply chain issues and food shortages, forcing them to get creative when feeding students. (WFLA)
- Restaurateurs from Washington, D.C. are opening a new restaurant, Meliora, on Hillview Street. (Sarasota)
- Nearly half of the millennials living in the Sarasota metro area own their home. That's above the national average for millennial homeownership. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
- FSU/Asolo Conservatory presents "Everybody," a modern take on the 15th-century morality play "Everyman." (Sarasota)
- Sarasota police rescued a jet skier and his puppy passenger who were swimming to shore in the New Pass channel after their watercraft broke down. (Sarasota Patch)
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Today in Sarasota:
- Beachy Pumpkins Creative Workshop (12:00 PM)
- Jazz at Two with the Roy Gerson Trio (2:00 PM)
- FALL CHESS TOURNAMENT - Suncoast Polytechnical High School (2:35 PM)
- Christmas Tree Boards (3:00 PM)
- Living a Compassionate Life, Tibetan Buddhism Today (7:00 PM)
- New Moon Red Tent - Unleash Your Inner Power. (7:00 PM)
- New Moon Red Tent - Unleash Your Inner Power. (7:00 PM)
- Bee Gees Now (7:00 PM)
Sarasota Patch Notebook
- Sarasota County Schools: "TEACHERS OF THE YEAR! Today we surprised the top three Teachers of the Year with our friends from the Education Foundation of Sarasota County, Inc. Please help us congratulate: 🎉 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐝, Speech-Language Pathologist,..." (Facebook)
- Humane Society of Sarasota County: "Doesn't he look like a little cinnamon roll with his fur pattern? Speaking of food, did you know?: ➡️ 36 kittens use 20 cans of wet food per day ➡️ That's 140 cans per week! ➡️ We need all of the help we can get when it comes to keeping ..." (Facebook)
- Sarasota County (FL) Sheriff's Office: "We are pleased to announce we will be hosting our FIFTH annual #SCSOHolidayToyDrive benefiting the 12th Judicial Circuit of Florida's Guardian ad Litem program this year! Since the initiative began in 2017, the sheriff's office has donat..." (Facebook)
- Sarasota Police Department: "🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 Do you recognize these five individuals? 🤔We'd like to speak with them after $25,000 in fishing equipment was stolen between Oct. 23rd & Oct. 24th in the 1100 block of John Ringling Boulevard, Sarasota. If you have any ..." (Facebook)
- Visit Sarasota County: "The Orchid Show 2021: Aerialists from the Tree Top to the Big Top now at Selby Gardens' Downtown Sarasota campus. 🌸👉https://bit.ly/2YONF9O" (Facebook)
- Sarasota County Government: "It's about that time! ⏰ Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour before going to bed Saturday, and enjoy that extra hour of sleep! #SRQCounty #fallback" (Facebook)
- City of Sarasota, Government: "FRESH FRIDAYS — Join us for the first-ever Fresh Fridays in downtown Sarasota TOMORROW — Friday, Nov. 5 — rain or shine! MORE INFO: https://uqfh5.app.goo.gl/3TVq" (Facebook)
- Sarasota County Government: "Yesterday afternoon, #SRQCountyUtilities crews responded to a call regarding a damaged Air Release Valve (ARV) located at Border Road and Havana Road in Venice. Upon investigation, crews discovered that a Sarasota County owned ARV had be..." (Facebook)
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— Tiffany Razzano
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